#marriage

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage. ↗

— Julie Metz

#marriage #marriage

Tapi mencari suami memang seperti melihat toko perabot untuk setelan meja makan yang pas buat ruangan dan keuangan. Kita datang dengan sejumlah syarat geometri dan bujet. Sedangkan kekasih muncul seperti sebuah lukisan yang tiba-tiba membuat kita jatuh hati. Kita ingin mendapatkannya, dan mengubah seluruh desain kamar agar turut padanya. Laila selalu jatuh cinta pada lukisan, bukan meja makan. ↗

— Ayu Utami

#romance #marriage

We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier. . . . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation. ↗

— Barbara Pym

#life

...And no prenup. Prenups are for people who plan on getting a divorce. I have so much, Bernie. But I've never had anyone to share it with. From now on, what's mine is yours ↗

— Jane Graves

#marriage #wedding #love

And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-marriage-plot #love

…I bet Echo that she couldn't repeat the following line ten times fast:   Cupid's Academy counts kissing cousins as completed conquests cause his classes cunningly conspire unconscious couples to copulate and canoodle copiously. ↗

— Tai Odunsi

#greek-mythology #marriage #mythology #percy-jackson #wedding

One thing I learned, between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get off of. You can't get clean from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though. Darlene, in The Marriage Plot ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-marriage-plot #marriage

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#feel-sorry #marriage #pity #marriage

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#marriage #marriage

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already. ↗

— David Crockett

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